Russel and Lola spent the next two days traveling in a northwestern route across Oclan. The one thing that Lola noticed was the surprising lack of villages, towns, or even cities. The lands seemed to only be barren, rocky hills, snow, skeletal-looking trees, or iced over lakes, rivers, and ponds. The only animal life she spotted was some large birds circling overhead on several occasions. If she didn’t have Russel with her, she would have been terrified to travel across such a foreboding ...